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Bible in one year by Nicky Gumbel:
Nicky Gumbel's Bible in one year today:
Silence
1. Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence
2. Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace and feel His presence. Exhale your worries.
Praise and Thanksgiving
1. Think through your day, all the times that made you smile
2. Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people
3. Sing a song to praise God (you are welcome to use "Father, I adore you" which I have been singing every morning for the past 20 years or your own choice to praise God)
Father, I adore You, lay my life before You, how I love You.
Jesus, I adore You, lay my life before You, how I love You.
Spirit, I adore You, lay my life before You, how I love You.
Confession and Repentance (Subjective Shifting Devotion Method https://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html
1. Pray for the Holy Spirit to shine on you that you are able to discover your sins and be willing to repent:
“Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God and having Jesus as my Lord. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”
"Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sins to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gifts to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."
“Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God and having Jesus as my Lord. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”
2. Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:
"Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sins to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gifts to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."
3. John Stott's daily prayer of Christlikeness (Christopher J.H. Wright, Cultivating the fruit of the Spirit. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2017, 13)
(Please click this link to see how God used John Stott to change my life:https://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/07/
"Heavenly Father, I pray that this day I may live in your presence and please you more and more.
Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.
Holy Spirit, I pray that this day you will fill me with yourself and cause your fruit to ripen in my life: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control."
The link to today's Time with Abba passages: http://api.pastoralcareschool.org/twa/
Time with Abba passages: (Psalm 104:31-35, Isaiah 22:1-24:23; Galatians 2:17-3:9; Proverbs 3:15-16)
Today's key passage:
I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. May my meditation be pleasing to him, as I rejoice in the Lord. But may sinners vanish from the earth
and the wicked be no more.
Praise the Lord, my soul.
Praise the Lord.
Psalm 104:33-35
Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time to Jesus as you listen to him.
My Listening The topic I received today from Jesus is: O Lord, thank you for your showers of blessing to renew the face of the ground!
After what I wrote yesterday in my blog to pray for the showers of blessing, please read what I wrote in my blog exactly two years ago, September 16, 2020:
Since I was moved by the Holy Spirit to ask people to pray for showers of blessing to the West Coast of North America last Sunday before and after our Annual General Meeting and I posted the same message yesterday in this blog, starting Monday morning Vancouver has been raining, last night was pouring rain for a short while!
Thank you Lord Jesus for answering our prayers and thank you all of you for joining us to pray for rain!
I deeply believe that there are many servants of God receiving the same message two days ago to pray for rain, just like what Elijah did!
Please continue to pray for more rain, pouring rain so that there is a hope to get rid of all those big forest fire!
May we sing praises to our Lord for He delights in our prayers and He has answered our prayers!
Praise the Lord, my soul!
Alleluia!
Wow! That's what I wrote two years ago! Is that wonderful that God listened to our prayers to pour down the showers of blessing! Yes, Lord Jesus, we need more showers of blessing from you including rain in those places without rain and have forest fire each year and also your pouring down of the Holy Spirit on us each day!
Dear Lord Jesus, We humbly pray like Elijah the Prophet to cry out to you for Your pouring down showers of blessing to renew the face of the ground and that more people may return to You. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.o Reflect on these questions:
I will sing to the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
May my meditation be pleasing to him,
as I rejoice in the Lord. But may sinners vanish from the earth
and the wicked be no more.
and the wicked be no more.
Praise the Lord, my soul.
Praise the Lord.
Psalm 104:33-35
Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time to Jesus as you listen to him.
My Listening
The topic I received today from Jesus is: O Lord, thank you for your showers of blessing to renew the face of the ground!
After what I wrote yesterday in my blog to pray for the showers of blessing, please read what I wrote in my blog exactly two years ago, September 16, 2020:
Since I was moved by the Holy Spirit to ask people to pray for showers of blessing to the West Coast of North America last Sunday before and after our Annual General Meeting and I posted the same message yesterday in this blog, starting Monday morning Vancouver has been raining, last night was pouring rain for a short while!
Thank you Lord Jesus for answering our prayers and thank you all of you for joining us to pray for rain!
I deeply believe that there are many servants of God receiving the same message two days ago to pray for rain, just like what Elijah did!
Please continue to pray for more rain, pouring rain so that there is a hope to get rid of all those big forest fire!
May we sing praises to our Lord for He delights in our prayers and He has answered our prayers!
Praise the Lord, my soul!
Alleluia!
Wow! That's what I wrote two years ago! Is that wonderful that God listened to our prayers to pour down the showers of blessing! Yes, Lord Jesus, we need more showers of blessing from you including rain in those places without rain and have forest fire each year and also your pouring down of the Holy Spirit on us each day!
Dear Lord Jesus,
We humbly pray like Elijah the Prophet to cry out to you for Your pouring down showers of blessing to renew the face of the ground and that more people may return to You. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.
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Reflect on these questions:
1. What inspiration have you received from today's catch? 2. What is your next step?
1. What inspiration have you received from today's catch?
2. What is your next step?
Family Corner:
Find an opportunity to share with your family the importance of today's message.
To know, learn and practice the method of Time with Abba, please click this link: https://www.pastoralcareschool.org
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